white-clawed crayfish
noun
A small freshwater crayfish native to Europe, Austropotamobius pallipes, which is olive brown with pale claws.
- Now endangered throughout much of its range, often because of competition with and disease acquired from species of crayfish introduced from America..
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), biologist and science educationist. After French écrevisse pieds-blancs.
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